Reading the Tea Leaves in Smart Investing Practices

MIIC at Eden Roc, 3/12/11

The old adage about reading tea leaves (where when you read tea leaves, you have the ability to foretell fortune is the belief behind this) implies that the one at the rudder has experienced both successes and failures as they have piloted through the decisions in life that they had control over. It is the same thing with the financial rudder that requires a steady hand in difficult and stormy economic seas. Like reading tea leaves, when surveying investment opportunities there are often no hard and fast rules that guide the shrewd investor, but a totality of their work and professional experiences.

So then you understand it is a compilation of all the events in our investment experiences that separates the competent investor from the exceptional investor. For example let’s look at the most recent experience we just lived through, although many people would tell you that their investment portfolio and other retirement plans didn’t live through the last bubble bust and has been ruptured away into money heaven for it is no longer to be found here on this earth.

As history has shown us, the market is constantly going through surges and then corrections. The key is to have the ability to read the events that are presently taking place and invest accordingly. For example, many of us were living the good life from 1995 through 2006 and remember that those who were “in the know” were telling us that we had another good seven to ten years before the corrections would kick in.

Looking back now, we realize that there were signs and tea leaves that screamed otherwise. For example, the government sponsored sub prime loans went against any reasonable logic. There were a few wise investors who rightly predicted the collapse of the housing market because of this. In other words, they could read the tea leaves.

Now let’s look at some of the tea leaves in the financial tea cup before us right now. We have the Middle East in an uproar and no one knows how it will shake out. Could the extremist gain control of, say, the majority of the countries in play, what will oil prices do? Could the tea leaves be telling us to invest in oil and gas companies here at home? As we have begun to move to clean fuels we have turned to things like natural gas to generate power and, thus, maybe the tea leaves could be telling us that we should be investing in pipeline companies that will be needed to address some of our major needs in the future. Then all these forces are building to what could be called a financial perfect storm in the near future, which by most wise counsel would say the tea leaves are calling us to invest in renewable energy.

The one thing that the tea leaves are indeed telling you is that the best place to find the top financial opportunities are in Miami on March the 12^th at the Miami International Investors Convention. This convention, which has been put together by two exceptional investment minds namely Raymond Oliver and Patrick Holland, who have assembled ten great investment opportunities in the form of companies that fit within what the tea leaves are telling us, namely companies in the pipeline, bio techs, consumer products, clean tech, renewable energy, oil and gas as well as the usual always profitable technology sectors. These are where the wise money is located.

As for your personal cup of tea, do you prefer one lump of sugar or two? Either way you want your tea during this investors event at the Eden Roc Resort, this will be a sweet event for investing.

Learn more about this one-day opportunity event of a lifetime and register now by visiting www.miamiinvestorclub.com. 

Article by Lena Hunt of Celebritize You


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